John Wood, the founder and CEO of Room to Read, will be Oprah’s guest today!

A great chance for him to further share the extraordinary story of the creation of well over 3,000 schools and libraries in developing nations around the world. Definitely worth watching or taping!

You may recall that John was gracious enough to sit down and be interviewed by DesignShare a few months ago. You can read what he had to say at this link: “The Impact of Room to Read: John Wood Interview”.

We’d also recommend that if you haven’t already read his book, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children, this is a great opportunity to grab a copy. Truly an inspired read! And a great chance to get involved in helping to fund the creation of schools and libraries around the world where it matters most.

Get involved:

Want to get involved in helping to fund the creation of a school or library, or help fund a student’s scholarship?

Or maybe you’d prefer to get involved at the scale of a single book and still help spark tens of thousands of libraries world-wide?

Room to Read’s mission is to ensure that every child receives the lifelong gift of education. With the help of the “Oprah Winfrey Show”® we can dream big and reach our goal of establishing 20,000 bilingual libraries by the year 2020.

You can help change the world by donating today. Every dollar donated equals one book donated - $100 dollars equals 100 books - and an opportunity to change the lives of some of the 770 million illiterate people in the world.

Congratulations to John and the entire Room to Read team on today’s Oprah segment…and everything they’ve done up to this point in helping kids around the world learn to read! There is no doubt that once his story is shared through the Oprah network that even bigger things will be coming their way in the days/years to come! And best of all? Kids and communities around the world will be the real beneficiaries!